From Athena to Zeus, the characters and stories of classical mythology have been both unforgettable and profoundly influential. They have inspired and shaped everything from great art and literature, to our notions of sexuality and gender roles, to the themes of popular films and TV shows.

Classical Mythology is an introduction to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Among those you will study are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the gods Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, Dionysos, and Aphrodite; the Greek Heroes, Theseus and Heracles (Hercules in the Roman version); and the most famous of all classical myths, the Trojan War.

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Introduction
What Is Myth?
Why Is Myth?
“First Was Chaos”
The Reign of the Olympians
Immortals and Mortals
Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death
The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife
Apollo and Artemis
Hermes and Dionysos
Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
Culture, Prehistory, and the "Great Goddess"
Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods
Theseus and the "Test-and-Quest" Myth
From Myth to History and Back Again
The Greatest Hero of All
The Trojan War
The Terrible House of Atreus
Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies
The Tragedies of King Oedipus
Monstrous Females and Female Monsters
Roman Founders, Roman Fables
“Gods Are Useful”
From Ovid to the Stars

Professor Elizabeth Vandiver



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